Monthly Archives: November 2008

The Virginia Supreme Court’s remand of a grandparent custody case has raised questions about who gets to award attorney’s fees, according to four judges of the Court of Appeals. In its Sept. 12 opinion in Lynchburg Division of Social Services ...

A topic today at the Virginia Committee on District Courts – ultimately carried over for further study – was whether to allow offenders who make an unauthorized turn at a crossover on a controlled access highway to pay a fine ...

A lawyer who stole nearly $4 million by “settling” personal injury cases without the knowledge of his injured clients was sentenced today to 11 years in jail. Stephen T. Conrad, 40, of Woodbridge, also was ordered by U.S. District Judge ...

A Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court cannot order restitution by this “high-level member” of the “Elite Torrents” Internet piracy group, who was convicted of criminal copyright infringement. U.S. v. Dove (USDC-WD) (VLW 008-3-505) (17 pp.)

A Christiansburg lawyer who admitted forging legal documents and passing them off as genuine may avoid a lengthy prison sentence. According to The Roanoke Times, a special prosecutor agreed to recommend no more than two years imprisonment in exchange for ...

A Christiansburg lawyer who admitted forging legal documents and passing them off as genuine may avoid a lengthy prison sentence. According to The Roanoke Times, a special prosecutor agreed to recommend no more than two years imprisonment in exchange for ...

A husband and wife employed by the same company, who embezzled company funds to support their drug habit and to deal drugs on the job, cannot be convicted of bank fraud because the government failed to prove that an insured ...

Attorneys who want to keep their names off of the soon-to-be-online list of lawyers in Virginia now can exercise their “opt-out” option at the Web site of the Virginia State Bar. To keep your name off the online list, log ...

Attorneys who want to keep their names off of the soon-to-be-online list of lawyers in Virginia now can exercise their “opt-out” option at the Web site of the Virginia State Bar. To keep your name off the online list, log ...

Word comes from the ABA Journal that times are so tight for the New York City-based firm of White & Case that the annual holiday party budget has been cut to just $250,000. And, unlike last year, the revelers will ...